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January 17, 2010
Novo-Diveevo: The Kursk Root Icon visited Holy Dormition Convent

On Saturday, January 16, the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God was brought by the diocesan secretary to the Holy Dormition Convent at Novo-Diveevo. The icon was greeted by Archpriest Alexander Fedorowski, Abbess Irene, and a multitude of the faithful, who came to venerate the wonder-working icon. In the convent’s main church of St. Seraphim of Sarov, Fr. Alexander led the moleben with akathist, co-served by Archpriest Serge Lukianov. After the service, the photomontage of the Kursk Root Icon’s return to Russia was shown in the convent’s hall. After the montage, the icon was taken to the nursing home on monastery premises in order to comfort and fortify the seniors there. The icon was then taken from the home to the convent’s Dormition Chapel, where a unique portrait-icon of St. Seraphim of Sarov, painted during his lifetime, is housed, after which it was taken to the convent’s cemetery, where requiem services were held at the graves of our reposed diocesan hierarchs, the ever-memorable Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko) and Bishop Gregory (Grabbe). Especially touching was the requiem service at the grave site of Archpriest Boris Kritsky, who over the course of the 60’s and 70’s traveled all around the world with the Kursk Root Icon. And now, in 2010, 21 years after the death of Fr. Boris, the Heavenly Queen returned to the grave of Her faithful servant and custodian. The icon went around the entire cemetery, blessing the graves of everyone there present. After the cemetery visit, the icon visited the home of famous ROCOR composer and conductor Boris Ivanovich Mitrokhin, where a moleben was served. The icon then left Novo-Diveevo for Holy Virgin Protection Church in Nyack, NY.

Media Office of the Eastern American Diocese